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Natural disasters and their cause

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The forest fires in Australia was a recent natural disaster which shook the world and deeply affected the air quality of the country and a big portion of nature was also destroyed which was appalling for both the economy and the ecosystem. The signs of the forest fire started to appear in October 2019 due to prolonged droughts around the country. With time a state of emergency was declared in Queensland and New South Wales in November and slowly the state of emergency was applied to the other states as well. Also known as black summer, the Australian forest fires were deemed as one of the biggest natural disasters.  The locust attack which affected the crops and food production of East Africa, India and the Middle East caused food crises in some countries. The earthquakes in China, India, Iran, Philippines, Russia, Turkey and the Caribbean which caused 41 deaths in turkey and 45 major earthquakes were categorized over 6 degrees on the Richter scale. Russia and Jamaica have faced ea...